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Okuama: Late Oghoroko Family, Appeal, Demand The Release Of Corpse For Traditional Burial Rites

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  THE immediate family members of the late president of Okuama community, have appealed to the state Governor, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Nigerian Army to release the corpse of Pa James Oghoroko who died in military detention.     The family in a sober tune while speaking to newsmen at the home of the late James Oghoroko in Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State held that it would be a taboo if the corpse of their breadwinner is not properly laid to rest according to…

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NIGERIA HAPPENS TO OKUAMA

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By Moses Darah   Since the tragic incident that claimed the lives of 16 soldiers on an alleged peacekeeping mission, the Okuama community of Urhobo in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State lies in ruins. The town has been flattened. Homes reduced to ‘kalukalu’ and ‘ikelekpen’. Leaders held for over a year without trial. Survivors are scattered in makeshift ‘itughe’, their lives stripped of normalcy. Children wander without schools, the sick have nowhere to turn, elders have no one to lean on. And the politicians, who should be…

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Detained Okuama Leaders To Be Arraigned In Warri FHC By Nigerian Army

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Fifteen months after being detained by the Nigerian Army, living Okuama leaders will be arraigned before the Federal High Court, sitting in Warri, Delta State.   The detained Okuama leaders, Prof Arthur Ekpekpo, Chief Belvis Adogbo, Mr Dennis Okugbaye, Dennis Malaka and others will appear before court for arraignement.   Though details of their arraignment is sketchy,it was learned the Nigerian had in a suit no: FHC/WR/CS/42/2024 bring them before the court.   It would be recalled that Prof Arthur Ekpekpo, Chief Belvis Adogbo, Pa James Oghoroko,(now deceased) Dennis Okugbaye,…

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Detained Okuama Leader, Adogbo Loses 2-yr Old Son

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Two years old son of detained Okuama community leader, Chief Belvis Adogbo has died from unknown illness at Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The deceased son, known as Oghenevwegba Belvis Adogbo, 2, died probably due to the absence of his detained father that ought care for him. It was learned that the little Adogbo was one year and five months old, when his father was arrested by men in military uniform in August 2024, over the murder of 17 military officers near Okuama community in Ughelli South…

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OKUAMA PEOPLE NEED URGENT MEDICAL ATTENTION

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By Moses Darah   I had a phone conversation with my brother, Comr. Daniel Etaga, about the dire plight of the Okuama people in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, who have returned to a community devastated beyond recognition. Etaga shared with me deeply distressing videos and photos from his recent visit to the Community. Words cannot fully describe the suffering of the Okuama people who now live in the ruins of their once-thriving town. There are no houses, no hospital, no school, no market, no fishing tools,…

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OKUAMA : ONE YEAR AFTER THE KILLINGS

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BY ABRAHAM OGBODO     It will be one year today, March 14, since the unfortunate killing of 17 soldiers, including four officers, at a location along the Forcados River in Delta State. While the point about the actual killers of the servicemen remains hanging, the Army, in the aftermath, pinned the killing down to persons in Okuama, a fishing community in Ughelli South local government area of Delta State. The army explained that the 17 soldiers were on a mission to settle a land dispute between Okuama, an Urhobo…

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GOVERNMENT INSENSITIVITY TO THE PLIGHT OF OKUAMA PEOPLE SO INCITING

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By Zik Gbemre   The piteous conditions residents of Okuama, Ughelli South LGA community of Delta state now live upon return from the Ewu IDP Camp after being displaced for months attest to the gross insensitivity of the Delta state government to theirs. The Abraham Ogbodo led Camp Management Committee indicated the camp opened 27th May 2024 had to be shut in December 31st of the same year after nearly over 15,000 claimed IDP population had left for their ancestral homeland at the start of a new farming season. When…

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How Okuama Exposes Institutional Failures In The Niger Delta

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By Zik Gbemre   Some reactions trailing the reported death of two leaders of Okuama community in military detention and the fear for the lives of four others still being held, unlawfully, expose the worsening institutional failures and inter ethnic disharmony in the Niger Delta.   The utterances we have read or heard from the Delta State Government and the Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF) in last couple of days have been, to say the least, appalling, very shameful and inciting.   Where key stakeholders who should stand in…

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TWO DEATHS IN MILITARY CUSTODY IN ONE WEEK: THERE’S CLEAR EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF OKUAMA LEADERS WITHOUT TRIAL BY FG & HER ARMY

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By Zik Gbemre     With the death of yet another Okuama Community leader, 81 years old Pa Dennis Okugbaye, in military detention without trial, it is now obvious there is a grand conspiracy by federal government for extrajudicial killing of Okuama Community leaders. The death of Pa Okugbaye, Treasurer of Okuama, comes just six days after President General of Okuama community in Ughelli South LGA, Pa James Oghoroko, a septuagenarian died in same circumstance. A Professor of Physics and President General of Ewu Kingdom, Arthur Ekpokpo and three others…

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How Okuama Community Treasurer, Okugbaye Died In Military Custody In Port Harcourt Days After PG’s Death

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  DAYS after the death of Okuama community President General, Pa James Achovwuko Oghoroko, in Nigerian military detention, 81 years old Dennis Okugbaye, Community Treasurer has allegedly died in detention on Tuesday afternoon despite medical advise for him to be released due to illness. Until his death Okugbaye, was among the six arrested Okuama leaders  and that has led to severe tension in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. The Okuama leaders were arrested since August 2024 and have been kept by the military without trial. The Late…

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